On a chilly march morning I took to the streets of Bedford in an attempt to get a sense of what people thought about Contemporary Art. Randomly I asked those walking up and down Bedford what they thought about the current state of contemporary art, who their favorite artists were and then took their picture.
Williamsburg
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Brooklyn Night Bazaar Unveils Plans for Trippy Interior
The energy is ramping up for the Brooklyn Night Bazaar and if the rendering of the interior by hot Euro architects JDS/Julien de Smeldt Architects is any indication, it’s going to be quite a trip.
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Inspired by Asia, Brooklyn Night Bazaar Set to Open in Williamsburg Dec 15-17
Next month, Brooklyn will be hosting a large-scale night market in a 40,000 sq ft warehouse in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The inaugural Brooklyn Night Bazaar took place on October 9 at Dekalb Market in downtown Brooklyn and attracted over 5,000 visitors.
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Work of Art Recap: Hitting Da Streets, Tiger Penises
OMG guys, the artistes have arrived in Brooklyn. China Chow announces the challenge. They artists have to do street art! In Williamsburg! So hood. It’s a team challenge, too. Apparently art is the new Quidditch.
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North Brooklyn Is Going Vertical
If you thought the recession stopped the architectural boomtown that is North Brooklyn, then you’ll have to think again. If Bushwick is getting all the buzz because of the art-borhood that is sprouting up there, the experiments in architectural verticality are happening a little west in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
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Another Senseless Artist/Cyclist Death in North Brooklyn
On Wednesday morning, 30-year-old artist and rising star Mathieu Lefevre was killed in a hit-and-run on Morgan Avenue in Williamsburg. His death is the fourth cycling fatality in Williamsburg in the past four months.
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15 New York Art World-ers on Art Controversies Today
With “sensitive to art and its discontents” written into the blogazine’s sub-header, Hyperallergic is no strange to contemporary art controversy, but we decided to ask 11 New York-based artists, critics and curators what they considers the most important and urgent controversy in visual art at the moment.
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No. Brooklyn’s “People’s Firehouse” Proposed to Open with Gallery Space
Next year, Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Greenpoint neighborhoods will have a new community center with the worst acronym known to humanity, North Brooklyn’s Town Hall and Community and Cultural Center (NTHCCC). The center will rise in the place of Engine 212, known as the “People’s Firehouse,” which was shuttered in 2002 because of the city’s money woes.
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[Sponsor] Join the Williamsburg Every 2:ND Friday Art Crawl
This Friday, September 9th, 2011 6-9pm, join Williamsburg Every 2:ND Friday and Artlog for a fall kickoff Art Crawl through 10 galleries in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Say Goodbye to Monster Island
Here at Hyperallergic we are pretty fond of Williamsburg. It’s the home of our shmancy offices, Journal Gallery and some other pretty great arts institutions and galleries. There is no denying that its changed quite significantly in the last few years. Unfortunately, my favorite neighborhood arts building, Monster Island, is closing.
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The Plastic Bag as Artistic Muse
In Patrick Griffin’s recent exhibition at The Journal Gallery in Williamsburg, Common Courtesy, he focused on an unusual subject matter: the plastic bag. If you live in a major city then you are more than familiar with these little guys; they accumulate under your sink, get stuck in that storm drain you always walk by on your way to work and blow urban tumbleweeds across the street at all hours of the day and night. Though the artist’s focus is playful and somewhat off kilter, his approach to this body of work seems almost scientific. Griffin collected, catalogued and scanned an army of plastic bags into the computer. Using this databank as his starting point, the artist made paintings directly from the two dimensional planes of these photographs.
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Finding Where the Wild Things Are in a Brooklyn Basement
Underground in Kenny Scharf’s Cosmic Cavern, a Williamsburg basement covered from floor to ceiling with neon toys, furniture, disco-balls, and murals where Scharf holds dance parties, last Saturday night, I, along with about 250 attendees, traveled to the place where the wild things are with Michael Alan’s Living Installation.